1740 in music

Painting of an opera house in Turin called The Teatro Regio
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Events

  • Johann Sebastian Bach begins to lose his sight.
  • Carl Heinrich Graun becomes Kapellmeister to Frederick II of Prussia. Johann Joachim Quantz becomes Frederick's flute teacher.
  • Ferdinando Bertoni arrives in Bologna where he becomes a pupil of Giovanni Battista Martini.
  • December 26 – The Teatro Regio (Turin) is inaugurated with a performance of Francesco Feo's opera Arsace.

Classical music

  • Thomas Arne – Alfred (masque), including the song, "Rule Britannia"
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    • Concerto for 2 Harpsichords in F major, H.408
    • Harpsichord Concerto in A major, H.410
    • Flute Sonata in A minor, H.555
  • Christoph Graupner – Violin Sonata in G minor, GWV 711
  • George Frideric Handel – L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55
  • Giuseppe Tartini – Violin Concerto in C major, D.1
  • Georg Philipp Telemann – 6 Overtures for Clavier, TWV 32:5–10 (Published ca. 1742 in Nuremberg, as VI Ouverturen nebst zween Folgesätzen)

Opera

  • Bernardo Aliprandi – Semiramide riconosciuta
  • Vincenzo Legrenzio Ciampi – La Beatrice
  • Baldassare Galuppi – Gustavo primo re di Svezia
  • Maurice Greene – The Judgement of Hercules
  • George Frideric Handel – Imeneo, HWV 41 (first performed, composed in 1738)
  • Nicola Porpora – Il trionfo di Camilla
  • Luca Antonio Predieri – Zenobia

Publications

  • Thomas Arne – Comus (London: William Smith). First performed 1738.
  • Jean-Baptiste Barrière – 6 Cello Sonatas, Livre 4 (Paris: Composer) (Likely composed 1737–1740)
  • Michel Blavet – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 3
  • Louis de Caix d'Hervelois – Pièces de viole, Livre 4
  • Esprit Philippe Chédeville – 6 Sonatilles galantes, Op. 6
  • Nicolas Chédeville – Les Deffis ou l'étude amusante, Op. 9
  • Antoine Dauvergne
    • 6 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1
    • 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 2
  • Michel Richard Delalande – Noëls en Trio avec un Carillon, S.173.24 (composed 1725, published posthumously)
  • George Frideric Handel
    • Op. 6, 12 Concerti Grossi
    • "A Second Set of Six Concertos" (London: John Walsh) (arranged for organ, No. 3–6 are also in Op. 6)
  • James Oswald – A Curious Collection of Scots Tunes
  • Johan Helmich Roman – Assaggio in G minor, BeRI 314 (Stockholm: Composer) likely composed earlier.
  • Carlo Tessarini – 6 Allettamenti da camera, Op. 3 (there is another Op. 3 by Tessarini, a set of 10 violin concerti)
  • Antonio Vivaldi – 6 Cello Sonatas, Le Clerc Op. 14 (Paris: Le Clerc le Cadet)
  • Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer – Concerti Armonici (composed between 1725–1740, originally published anonymously and attributed to various composers)

Methods and theory writings

  • Michel Corrette – Méthode pour apprendre à jouër la flûtte
  • John Frederick Lampe – The Art of Musick
  • Johann Mattheson – Grundlage einer Ehren-Pforte

Births

  • February 3 – Guillaume Lasceux (died 1831)
  • February 4 – Carl Michael Bellman, poet and composer (died 1795)
  • February 15 – Ernst Eichner (died 1777)
  • May 9 – Giovanni Paisiello, composer (died 1816)
  • July 26 – Louis-Augustin Richer, classical singer, singing master and composer (died 1819)
  • August 10 – Samuel Arnold (composer), (died 1802)
  • October 7 – Samuel Webbe (died 1816)
  • November 4 – Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn-writer (died 1778)
  • December – Elisabeth Olin, operatic soprano (died 1828)
  • unknown date
    • John Antes, composer (died 1811)
    • Sir Peter Beckford, English peer (died 1811), patron of Muzio Clementi
    • Samuel Webbe, composer (died 1816)
  • probable – Anna Bon, singer and composer

Deaths

  • January 5 – Antonio Lotti, composer (born 1667)
  • January 13 – William Turner, singer and composer (born 1651)
  • January 25 – Geminiano Giacomelli, composer (born 1692)
  • February 9 – Vincent Lübeck, organist and composer (born 1654)
  • February 25 – Dietrich Bernhard Ludewig (born 1707)
  • October 14 – Domenico Alberti, composer (born c.1710)
  • unknown date
    • André Bouys, painter and copyist (born c.1656)
    • Edward Purcell, organist (born 1689)
    • Poul Christian Schindler, composer (born 1648)
  • probable – François Dieupart, French composer (born after 1667)
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